You'll notice everyone jumping between AI tools lately—"switching from this one to that". Here's what most people miss: every major model will blow away its predecessors within a year or two. That's just how exponential growth works.
But here's the real play. The actual competitive advantage isn't raw performance. It's portability. Can you pack up all your data, your conversation history, your personalized workflows, and migrate to the next best thing? Or are you locked in?
The true moat isn't the model itself. It's how deeply your AI understands your patterns, your needs, your context. That's what keeps people from leaving—not feature superiority, but the friction of starting over from scratch.
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You'll notice everyone jumping between AI tools lately—"switching from this one to that". Here's what most people miss: every major model will blow away its predecessors within a year or two. That's just how exponential growth works.
But here's the real play. The actual competitive advantage isn't raw performance. It's portability. Can you pack up all your data, your conversation history, your personalized workflows, and migrate to the next best thing? Or are you locked in?
The true moat isn't the model itself. It's how deeply your AI understands your patterns, your needs, your context. That's what keeps people from leaving—not feature superiority, but the friction of starting over from scratch.